This is the story of the first and so far only digital weapon to be used. This enables you to get a complete understanding about the virus's creators; what happened once the virus was released and most importantly - the implications from it. She has extensive, extensive footnoting...it's distracting...hard to read the tiny font, and really, again, just stuff that should have gone into the regular text. Repetitive, but useful to get it from all points of view. One part of me while reading wished that the outcome hadnt already been known and that the US could have been successful in keeping Stuxnet underwraps while continuing to thwart the efforts of rouge states nuclear efforts running haywire. Pretty good for the first 2/3 of the book. There's some mentioning of sensitive content as far as I can remember (assassinations) but it mostly focuses on the exploit itself. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.

Fascinating how it all played out.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2016. Propelled by Zetter's unique knowledge and access, and filled with eye-opening explanations of the technologies involved, Countdown to Zero Day is a comprehensive and prescient portrait of a world at the edge of a new kind of war. Best non fiction book of 2014. One part of me while reading wished that the outcome hadnt already been known and that the US could have been successful in keeping Stuxnet underwraps wh. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. Start by marking “Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Please try your request again later. Really good read. Refresh and try again. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.

It just shows how much effort went into the whole book. The author is extremely careful with the nuances of truth and divides the information into chapter content and lengthy footnotes. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. ), and, the immense moral and legal consequences for the United States and Israel by initiating the first government-sponsored attack in the new age of cyber-warfare between nations. I loved the first 4/5's of the book - in which the real story of Stuxnet is told. Please try again. What I was most impressed about was the amount of notes cited after each chapter. Incredibly interesting, and seemingly very few stones left unturned (as others have said, many references provided throughout). Interesting and well written, although I felt the story could have been told in about half its pages, sometimes it felt very repetitive and went too far away from the actual topic. The first shot on the bow of any international conflict will probably be some kind of sophisticated cyber attack. For a SOFTWARE engineer of any level, this book has a lot of great ideas to make your code more readable and maintainable. Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018. However, as a whole, the book and its elaborations on the connections between cybercriminiality and warfare is thrilling and immensely relevant. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. This book tells the story – or at least part of the story – of Stuxnet, the malware that was employed allegedly by the US and Israeli intelligence services to disrupt Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme in the late 2000s.

It just shows how much effort went into the whole book. She often includes paragraphs of footnotes on a page...and anything you're writing paragraphs you usually should include that information in the regular text. I know quite a few of the researchers that were involved in reverse engineering Stuxnet and Flame - so I was able to watch the story unfold with a behind the scenes view - what's presented in here is a very accurate, and insightful view of one of the most important security discoveries in recent years.

No doubt the best book of its type that I've read in a long time. This book, however, read like a crime novel, based on journalistic expertise. I struggled to pay attention through the. Especially interesting if you work in technology.

You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Perhaps my only bigger criticism is there is way too much use of long footnotes. However, as a whole. Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2017. I first saw a documentary about the subject and I just had to learn more about Stuxnet. Cyberwar - well-written, well-researched, well-reasoned, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2015. First she told it as it was uncovered by the virus t. The last third of the book she retold the story, but from the point of view of the other players. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Kim Zetter gives a behind the scenes peak from the perspective of malware researchers from Symantec, as well as insight on the politics behind the attack. Cyberwar - well-written, well-researched, well-reasoned, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2015. Kim Zetter unravels the story of Stuxnet, the US computer attack on Iran's nuclear program in Countdown to Zero Day. Great read on Stuxnet and digital weapons/cyber war. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2014. Off to build and bunker and store the supplies!!! Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. Cyber is exciting and I have some background in computing so it was of special interest to me. Kim Zetter unravels the story of Stuxnet, the US computer attack on Iran's nuclear program in, not a great achievement in research or writing or insight or anything, but a pretty competent assembly of timelines and people. But Countdown to Zero Day also ranges beyond Stuxnet itself, exploring the history of cyberwarfare and its future, showing us what might happen should our infrastructure be targeted by a Stuxnet-style attack, and ultimately, providing a portrait of a world at the edge of a new kind of war. I'm glad I read it. Please try again. She reveals just how vulnerable many of our own critical systems are to Stuxnet-like strikes, … Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.

The last 1/5 is a somewhat tedious timeline of events without much narrative to support it; while interesting, it wasn't nearly as good as the rest of the book. She takes an extremely complicated subject in terms of technical detail, political fallout and philosophical conundrums and makes it easy for the security practitioner to understand. The last third of the book she retold the story, but from the point of view of the other players. November 11th 2014 If you want more audio on this topics in this book, check out the podcasts Malicious Life and Darknet Diaries. A few small technical details were wrong in some areas...the author isn't a cybersecurity expert...but she gets 99% of the details right and tells a great, compelling story. This book reads like a thriller.

But Countdown to Zero Day ranges far beyond Stuxnet itself.

Although, the writing is packed with computer/technology terms in the beginning, this book is worth it. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World, The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, “An authoritative account of Stuxnet’s spread and discovery . To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Thankfully I have found a little non-fiction gem in this book. That book highlighted how Iran had been building a nuclear program for several years. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Want to give this as a gift, but not make his parents angry at me.

Yes it is hard to put down and and it does require some technical understanding but it is well explained. I bought this because I wanted to know more about the Stuxnet virus and the potential implication that it was created by western government(s) to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program. But the author is so, so, awesome at everything else that I would give her six starts if I could. Readers’ Top Histories and Biographies of the Last 5 Years. The author is extremely careful with the nuances of truth and divides the information into chapter content and lengthy footnotes.

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